laynie
08 July 2006 @ 09:09 pm
There's this guy at work who's kind of, well, odd. He doesn't like sugar. (No, seriously. He's not just trying to avoid it because it's bad for you. He really doesn't like it.) He doesn't like getting free food with the rest of us. He refuses to wear IT shirts. He also decides now and then to make fun of my job, particularly the part where I have to carry cards around for people to sign. Which, you know, I make fun of my job. A lot of the things I do are kind of dumb. And therefore humorous. But when he does it it kind of feels like he looks down on *me* for doing it. He can also be quite friendly, which is part of why I call him odd. (And when he's being friendly I have kind of a teeny tiny little crush on him, which--god. Kill me.)

The other day he came in to get a soda (sugar free and caffeine free, of course) and immediately ran water on a paper towel and used it to clean the top of the soda can before drinking out of it. And I'm like....ohkaaaay. Who does that? I can't imagine it would really do much good, either, unless you're going to use soap.

so, what do you think? )
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mood: confused
music: Tour de France Stage 7
 
 
laynie
10 October 2005 @ 12:43 am
I've been ranting about my computer running slow with the Dlink router for ages, as I'm sure some of you have noticed, so I finally got around to replacing the gorram router today (instead of throwing the computer down the stairs, as I've been threatening to do). I now have a brand new Linksys router and network card, which I bought together because I wasn't entirely sure my old network card wasn't also causing problems, and it was cheaper to buy the package with router and network card together than to wait and buy the network card separately if it turned out I needed it. So I'm out 90 more dollars, but my computer's not running slow anymore, which is yay. (At least, it's not running slow *so far*. I'm far from sanguine about how long this will last.)

Poll #587123
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

What should I do with my old router?

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Throw it down the stairs!
1 (20.0%)

Jump up and down on it!
2 (40.0%)

Beat on it with some sort of club like that really cool scene in Office Space.
3 (60.0%)

I am appalled that you want to destroy a defenseless piece of electronic equipment.
0 (0.0%)

Other, which I will describe in loving detail in the comments.
2 (40.0%)

 
 
mood: worried
music: Sonicflood - I Want to Know You (In the Secret)
 
 
laynie
22 June 2005 @ 05:01 pm
[info]picara has demanded a ticky box poll. I'm not doing this for her. I would never do something just because she told me to do it. But, entirely coincidentally, I find myself in the mood to create a ticky box poll. *sing-song voice* I'll do it because I want to, not because you tell me to!

click here for the poll )

I am craving a steak, really a lot. So I think I might go to Red Lobster and have steak. Also cheddar biscuits, because their cheddar biscuits? Wonderful. And I just had a cinnamon sugar pretzel, in case anybody couldn't tell. I might have to have one of those everyday, forever.
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mood: hungry
music: Loreena McKennitt - Between the Shadows